Abstract Background This article explores the reasons in favour of revising and extending the current 14-day statutory limit to maintaining human embryos in culture.This limit is enshrined in law in over a dozen countries, including the United Kingdom.In two recently published studies (2016), scientists have shown that embryos can be sustained in v
Metachromatic leukodystrophy (MLD) is a glycosphingolipid storage disease caused by deficiency of the lysosomal enzyme arylsulfatase A (ASA) or its activator protein saposin B.MLD can affect all age groups in severity varying from a severe fatal form to milder adult onset forms.Diagnosis is usually made by measuring leukocyte ASA activity.However,
The exercise of market power by the strategic generating companies (gencos) in the deregulated wholesale electricity market (WEM) should be mitigated, as it results in higher wholesale prices of electricity and a drop in competition in the WEM.Consequently, Optimal Transmission Switching (OTS) has been proposed as a means by which the System Operat
Wolf spiders are abundant and voracious predators at the soil-plant interface in cotton crops.Among other prey, they attack late-instar larvae of the cotton bollworm Helicoverpa spp., an economically important pest.Consequently, wolf spiders in transgenic Bt cotton could provide significant biological control of Bt-resistant Helicoverpa larvae that